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JUNG AND THE MONOTHEISMS Jung and the Monotheisms brings together a range of scholars to provide an exploration of some of the essential aspects of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The contributors include leading Jungian analysts and scholars, among them Baroness Vera von der Heydt, Ann Belford Ulanov and Murray Stein. They bring to bear psychological, religious and historical perspectives in an attempt to uncover the nature and psychology of the three monotheisms. The book provides a fresh and profound source of interpretation and comparison of Islam within the western psyche. The editor, Joel RyceMenuhin, is especially concerned to bring both the essential and comparative ele- ments of the religious psychology of Islam to the attention of the contempo- rary reader and to provide a forum for an increased dialogue between the three monotheisms. Joel Ryce-Menuhin is a Jungian analyst. A former international concert pianist who has travelled extensively, he is deeply committed to furthering the understanding between Judaism, Christianity and Islam from a psycho- logical viewpoint. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Kent, former editor of Harvest, the journal of the C.G.Jung Analytical Psychology Club, London, and the Founding Director of the British and Irish Branch of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy. He is the author of The Self in Early Childhood (1988) and Jungian Sandplay (Routledge, 1992). Also available from Routledge: Jungian Sandplay The Wonderful Therapy Joel Ryce-Menuhin Analysis Analysed Fred Plaut Jung and Searles A Comparative Study David Sedgwick Jung and Phenomenology Roger Brooke In Search of Jung J.J.Clarke Chaos and Order in the World of the Psyche Joanne Wieland-Burston Changemakers A Depth Psychological Study of the Individual, Family and Society Louis H.Stewart JUNG AND THE MONOTHEISMS Judaism, Christianity and Islam Edited by Joel Ryce-Menuhin London and New York First published in 1994 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1994 Selection and editorial matter, Joel Ryce-Menuhin; individual chapters, the contributors; chapter 11 © 1991 The Washington Times Corporation All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Jung and the monotheisms: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam/edited by Joel Ryce-Menuhin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Monotheism—Psychology. 2. Psychoanalysis and religion. 3. Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav), 1875–1961. I. Ryce-Menuhin, Joel. BL221.J86 1993 ¢ 291.14–dc20 93–8077 ISBN 0-203-35988-7 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-37244-1 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-07962-4 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-10414-9 (pbk) Dedicated to The Right Honourable Lord Menuhin, OM, KBE, my brother-in-law, who has worked for peace between religions all of his life and to the School for Peace in Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, a village in Israel in which Jews and Palestinians have chosen to build a community together. CONTENTS Notes on contributors ix Acknowledgements xiv Introduction 1 Part I Orientation to Jung and religion 1 JUNG AND RELIGION: ITS PLACE IN ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY 7 Vera von der Heydt 2 THE HOLY: A MEETING-POINT BETWEEN ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION 20 Leon Schlamm 3 THE DREAM OF WHOLENESS 33 Murray Stein Part II Judaism Editor’s preface 43 4 THE DARK FACE OF GOD IN JUDAISM 45 Siegmund Hurwitz 5 JERUSALEM AND ZURICH: AN INDIVIDUAL SYNTHESIS 56 Gustav Dreifuss 6 THE KABBALA, JUNG AND THE FEMININE IMAGE 63 Freema Gottlieb 7 JACOB AND ‘HEAR, O ISRAEL’ 74 Levi Meier CONTENTS Part III Christianity Editor’s preface 89 8 JUNG AND PRAYER 91 Ann Belford Ulanov 9 JUNG’S ANSWER TO JOB IN THE LIGHT OF THE MONOTHEISMS 111 Joel Ryce-Menuhin 10 IN THE SHADOW OF THE MONOTHEISMS: JUNG’S CONVERSATIONS WITH BUBER AND WHITE 125 John P.Dourley Part IV Islam Editor’s preface 149 11 THE ISLAMIC CONCEPT OF HUMAN PERFECTION 154 William C.Chittick 12 KHIDR IN THE OPUS OF JUNG: THE TEACHING OF SURRENDER 166 Nicholas Battye 13 THE MYSTERIUM CONIUNCTIONIS AND THE ‘YO-YO SYNDROME’: FROM POLARITY TO ONENESS IN SUFI PSYCHOLOGY 192 Sara Sviri 14 THE MIGRATION FACTOR: COMPARING THE EXPERIENCES OF THE MUSLIM AND JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF SOUTH ASIA 214 Sarah Ansari Part V The Song of Songs 15 JUNG’S FATHER, PAUL ACHILLES JUNG, AND THE SONG OF SONGS: AN INTRODUCTION 233 Joel Ryce-Menuhin 16 EROS AND MYSTICISM: EARLY CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATION OF THE SONG OF SONGS 241 Andrew Louth 17 THE SONG OF SONGS 255 Gustav Dreifuss Index 270 viii CONTRIBUTORS Sarah Ansari obtained an MA in Area Studies (South Asia) at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and then a Ph.D. from Royal Holloway College, University of London, focusing on modern Indian Muslim history and in particular on the history of the province of Sind (now in Pakistan). Her book Sufi Saints and State Power: the Pirs of Sind, 1843– 1947 (Cambridge University Press, 1992) examines the evolving relation- ship between the British and the hereditary Muslim religious leaders of the region. Dr Ansari was assistant editor of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives (Cambridge University Press, 1989), and has written a number of articles and reviews on issues relating to the history of Muslims in the Indian sub- continent. Between 1988 and 1991, she was British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Royal Holloway College, and worked on partitionrelated migration from India to Pakistan, with special reference to the impact which it had on the subsequent development of the Pakistani province of Sind. She is currently Honorary Lecturer at Royal Holloway College, where she lectures in twentieth-century world history. Nicholas Battye is a Sufi, originally trained in Zen. He has a BA in Religious Studies and an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies. After a first career as a docu- mentary photographer, he now works as a psychotherapist in private prac- tice in London. He is co-author of Survival Programmes (Open University Press, 1982), a nation-wide study of urban poverty. William C.Chittick has been assistant professor of religious studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is a former assistant profes- sor at Aryamehr University in Tehran. He is a specialist in Sufism, and his works include The Sufi Path of Love: Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (1983), a translation of Fakhr al-Din ’Iraqi’s Divine Flashes (1982), and Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts (1992). John P.Dourley is a Jungian analyst, a graduate of the Zurich/Küsnacht Institute, 1980, currently practising in Ottawa, Canada. He is professor of
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